2.6.2 booting doesn't work

**sdousley** · 02-14-2004

What settings do i need to add to menu.lst for grub to enable kernel 2.6.2? I have tried all sorts of combinations, but can't get any to work. The one that works best, just gives me a black screen, and does nothing.

**sarumont** · 02-14-2004

Can you give us some more information? What have you done as far as kernel compiling and can you post your grub.conf?

**sdousley** · 02-15-2004

My grub.conf:

Code:

root &#40;hd0,3&#41;
install  --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d &#40;hd0&#41; /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 &#40;hd0,3&#41;/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit

Basically i have been editing the menu.lst file to include the details for my new kernel. I compiled the kernel with all the defaults, my mate said all of that should b ok! If you want me menu.lst can post that too.

**sarumont** · 02-16-2004

I've never had a menu.lst or anything other than grub.conf for my boot options, so I'm not sure wtf is up with that. But here's my kernel entries from my grub.conf:

Code:

title=Gentoo Linux-2.6.1-gentoo-r1
root &#40;hd0,0&#41;
kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.1-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda3 idebus=66 video=radeon&#58;ywrap,mtrr,1024x768@80 vga=0x317
initrd=/boot/bootsplash

Hope that helps.

**Giro** · 02-16-2004

IIRC menu.lst is for lilo.

**sdousley** · 02-16-2004

menu.lst is for LILO? I never had LILO on my computer, and when i edit things in the menu.lst file it edit's the GRUB List!

**sdousley** · 02-16-2004

How would i implement that grub.config here? I have no initrd from the kernel, or will that just b the same as the old kernel?
The main prob i think is that it's booting, but i can't c the display. I got Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 440 if that helps?

**lordnothing** · 02-17-2004

you have to recompile the nvidia drivers with every kernel compile.. no way around it.. so boot to an old kernel and build the nvidia drivers again..

**sdousley** · 02-17-2004

I boted into the original kernel (2.4.x) and recompiled the Nvidia drivers, and still just had a blank screen. I believe the computer boots, it jus doesn't output anything to the screen. I can't c the sdtuff loading. Is there a command to tell it to use the Nvidia drivers that i may have missed out?

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